Alleged Parika wife killer remanded

Apr 12, 2017 Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News

Two days after he was shot during a police arrest, 30-year-old Ganesh Dhanraj was yesterday remanded

MURDER ACCUSED: Ganesh Dhanraj

to prison for the murder of his wife, Dhanwantie Ram, whom he allegedly strangled in her one-bedroom Parika, East Bank Essequibo home.
Dhanraj was arraigned in the Leonora Magistrate’s Court before Magistrate Rochelle Liverpool, who ordered him to return to court on June 5.
According to reports, Ram, a 29-old housewife was on her way to the Parika Police Station to make a police report against her reputed husband when he dragged her into their home and strangled her during an argument on April 5.
Ram’s body was discovered by her father and sister in a sitting position on a chair in the living room of her home with a mat thrown over her. A postmortem gave the cause of death as compression of the neck due to strangulation.
It was reported that after Dhanraj killed his wife he plunged into the Essequibo River and escaped from police. However, police apprehended the alleged killer on Sunday after he was found hiding out in an unoccupied house. The alleged killer was shot to the right arm by a police rank after he plunged into a trench located a short distance from his wife’s home.